| Issue |
A&A
Volume 381, Number 3, JanuaryIII 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | L61 - L63 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011661 | |
| Published online | 15 January 2002 | |
Letter to the Editor
Supersonic propeller spindown of neutron stars in wind-fed mass-exchange close binaries
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, Pulkovo 65–1, 196140 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Corresponding author: ikhsanov@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Received:
19
November
2001
Accepted:
26
November
2001
The supersonic propeller spindown of a neutron star moving in a
strong stellar wind of its massive companion is discussed. I show
that the supersonic propeller model presented by Davies & Pringle
([CITE]) is self-consistent if the strength of the stellar
wind of the normal companion is 
. Under these
conditions the model can be used for the interpretation of the
long-period pulsars in Be/X-ray transients. The spin history of
the neutron star in the long period Be/X-ray transient A0535+26 is
considered.
Key words: accretion / propeller spindown / stars: close binaries / stars: neutron star / stars: Be/X-ray transients
© ESO, 2002
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